From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 25 13:04:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0568516A4DD for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:04:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (dsl081-142-072.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.142.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 601E243D4C for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:04:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p17.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.6/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k6PD3iKE014704; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:03:49 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20060724172755.025cb680@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:03:27 -0500 To: Jaime , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <3ABD124B-04D2-4861-84A1-6EC27F1466D2@snowmoon.com> References: <3ABD124B-04D2-4861-84A1-6EC27F1466D2@snowmoon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: tar dies on making tape backup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:04:23 -0000 Using tar with a SDLT I set the blocksize at 1024 and use ASCII headers (-c) -Derek At 05:18 PM 7/24/2006, Jaime wrote: > I'm attempting to use tar to feed my filesystem(s) to a DLT tape >drive. I've done this with FreeBSD 3 through 5 and DAT (DDS-3 and >DDS-4) tapes for years. The command now appears to work for a while >and then dies with this message about 2.5 hours into the process: > >archive_write_pax_header: 'x' header failed?! This can't happen. > > Any idea what this means? > > I'm using: >$ uname -a >FreeBSD atlas.cairodurham.org 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Wed >Jun 28 11:27:09 EDT 2006 root@atlas.cairodurham.org:/usr/obj/usr/ >src/sys/SMP i386 > > This is my first FreeBSD 6.x system, my first SMP kernel, and my >first DLT drive on a FreeBSD system. Using Google, I couldn't find >any answers that were useful. (Just a few dead threads from various >forums and mailing lists.) > > Thanks in advance, > Jaime >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. >MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.